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Why

Brings the nvsnap GPU checkpoint/restore integration into the nvca operator, so NVCA-managed function pods can drive checkpoint capture and fast restore. Moved here from the (now frozen) GitLab repo as part of the GitHub cutover.

What changed

  • nvca operator drives nvsnap GPU checkpoint/restore: pkg/nvca/nvsnap (controller + reconciler), wired into the NVCAAgent reconcile path.
  • Serialized-herd cold start via pioneer election.
  • Operator Helm chart updates (deployment, values, network policy) + feature flag.
  • 60 files, ~+9k/-300.

How this was ported

github/main has a history disjoint from the old GitLab branch, so this is applied as a net-diff onto github/main (3-way merge), not a rebase. The GitLab CI config and the byoc featureflags docs are dropped (absent on GitHub / not applicable here).

Testing

  • go build ./... on the nvca module: green.
  • New nvsnap packages (pkg/nvca/nvsnap, .../controller, .../reconciler): tests pass.
  • No new test failures vs the github/main baseline (the pre-existing RBAC/network-policy golden-data test failures and the version-stamp init panic under plain go test reproduce identically on unmodified github/main; the module is normally tested via Bazel with version stamping).

Notes / follow-ups

  • Draft: leaving codegen (deepcopy/openapi) and gazelle BUILD regeneration to CI verification; the auto-merged generated files compile, will regenerate if CI flags staleness.
  • The dropped byoc featureflags doc can be re-added once its GitHub docs location is confirmed.
  • Depends on nvsnap agent images being available in the target registry for a live deploy.

Relates to #71

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added optional NvSnap checkpoint and restore support, including cold-start coordination, capture recovery, and checkpoint reuse.
    • Added configurable NvSnap server, warmup, and feature settings.
    • Added Kubernetes resources for tracking NvSnap function-state status.
    • Added an opt-in operator NetworkPolicy with configurable ingress and egress controls.
  • Security
    • Enforced non-root execution and Kubernetes’ default seccomp profile.
  • Documentation
    • Added NvSnap integration and durable recovery design documentation.
  • Reliability
    • Added recovery for interrupted captures and bounded retry behavior.

Port the nvsnap checkpoint/restore integration into the nvca operator
(re-port of GitLab !651 / closed !1748) onto post-cutover GitHub main.

- nvca operator drives nvsnap GPU checkpoint/restore (pkg/nvca/nvsnap:
  controller + reconciler), wired into NVCAAgent reconcile.
- serialized-herd cold start via pioneer election.
- operator chart (deployment/values/networkpolicy) + feature flag.

Applied as a net-diff onto github/main, whose history is disjoint from
GitLab. 60 files; the GitLab CI config and byoc featureflags docs are
dropped (absent on GitHub). Merge is clean: `go build ./...` is green,
the new nvsnap packages pass, and there are no new test failures versus
the github/main baseline.

Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Walkthrough

The PR adds NvSnap checkpoint and restore integration for NVCA. It adds API types, an HTTP client, pod hooks, reconciliation, recovery, cold-start coordination, CRD and RBAC wiring, configuration changes, and operator security policies.

Changes

NvSnap integration and operator hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Operator security and network policy
deploy/helm/nvca-operator/..., src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/...
The operator deployments enforce non-root execution and the RuntimeDefault seccomp profile. Optional NetworkPolicy templates configure DNS, NvSnap, Kubernetes API, ingress, and extra egress rules.
NvSnap contracts and Kubernetes resources
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/apis/..., src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/reconcile/..., src/compute-plane-services/nvca/docs/users/nvsnap/...
The change replaces CryoConfig with NvSnapConfig, adds the NvSnapFunctionState API and CRD, updates OpenAPI and RBAC, adds feature gating, and documents integration and recovery designs.
NvSnap client, controller, and reconciler
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/...
The new client calls checkpoint, lookup, deletion, and PVC promotion APIs. The controller queues eligible Ready pods. The reconciler manages capture claims, polling, status, backoff, recovery sweeps, metrics, and failure handling.
Pod hooks and cold-start coordination
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/...
Pod creation applies NvSnap annotations and content-addressed restore lookup. MiniService creation elects a cold-start pioneer. The controller starts conditionally and fails open on initialization or runtime errors.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2dd6a

The checkpoint/restore integration is merge-ready after normal checks and review; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: famousdirector

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balaji-g and others added 2 commits August 9, 2026 20:13
Resolves the BUILD.bazel conflict and converts this branch to the label
scheme main adopted in the root-module consolidation (#593).

Main moved 61 commits since this branch's merge base, but only one file
conflicted: pkg/nvca/BUILD.bazel, in the deps list, because both sides
added entries. The Go sources merged cleanly -- agent.go now carries
both main's transport TLS work and this branch's nvsnap hook.

The real work was not the conflict. Main now spells nvca labels
//src/compute-plane-services/nvca/..., while this branch predates that
and used //internal/..., //pkg/... and //vendor/.... Four BUILD files
carried the old form and would not have built.

gazelle cannot regenerate these: the root BUILD.bazel carries
"# gazelle:exclude src/compute-plane-services/nvca", and nvca's own
gazelle target still walks from the workspace root and honors it, so
nvca is skipped however it is invoked. BAZEL.md anticipates this and
allows hand-adding deps, which is what this does.

Changes:
  - pkg/nvca/BUILD.bazel: take main's version, then re-add this branch's
    four nvsnap_*.go srcs, two nvsnap test srcs, and five deps, each in
    sorted position and in main's label form.
  - pkg/nvca/nvsnap/{,controller,reconciler} and pkg/apis/nvsnap/v1alpha1
    BUILD files: rewrite labels to the consolidated form.

Verified: bazel build //src/compute-plane-services/nvca/... succeeds
across 2877 targets. bazel test passes 69/71, including every nvsnap
target and pkg/nvca:nvca_test, which is the one that compiles the merged
agent.go. The two failures (internal/miniservice, pkg/storage) are
envtest suites failing on "KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS not set" in this sandbox,
unrelated to the merge.

Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…orks

Hook A stamped only annotations. NvSnap's mutating webhook gates the cachedir
capture volume (/opt/nvsnap) on the nvsnap.io/capture LABEL, and a webhook only
runs at admission -- a volume cannot be added to a running pod.

nvsnap-server does apply that label, but after the pod reports warm. That is
correct for the agent's rootfs capture watcher and far too late for the webhook,
so NVCA-created pods never got the mount and the agent failed every capture with
"cachedir mode: no volume mounted at /opt/nvsnap on the main container", retrying
every 30s forever. Bench manifests never hit this because they carry the label
from the start, which is why cachedir benchmarks pass while the NVCA-driven path
silently never captured.

Stamped on the true cold-start path only. The restore paths return earlier and
must not be labeled: a restored pod is not a capture candidate, and labeling it
would put N replicas back in the watcher, each POSTing a redundant
CreateCheckpoint and overwriting each other's hash in CFS -- the same reason
checkpoint-on-warm is scoped this way (Greptile P2 on !1698).

Verified on nvcf-dgxc-k8s-aws-usw2-dev2 with a live NVCF function: /opt/nvsnap
injected at admission, then agent-direct copy 269MB/564 files, L2 promote
(shared-volume, zero copy), blobstore upload, and NvSnapFunctionState advanced
to Warm.

Note for CI: these tests need
-ldflags="-X github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-dra-driver-gpu/internal/info.version=v25.8.0"
or a vendored dep panics during package init.

Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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🟠 Major comments (22)
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/apis/nvsnap/v1alpha1/nvsnapfunctionstate_types.go-57-60 (1)

57-60: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Run and commit required API generation.

This adds CRD API types and generation markers, but the PR objectives state that code generation is deferred to CI verification. Run make codegen-update and make openapigen-update before merge. Commit every generated client, DeepCopy, and OpenAPI change.

As per coding guidelines, "After modifying CRD types, run make codegen-update and make openapigen-update to regenerate clients, informers, listers, DeepCopy code, and OpenAPI schemas."

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/apis/nvsnap/v1alpha1/nvsnapfunctionstate_types.go`
around lines 57 - 60, Run make codegen-update and make openapigen-update after
adding the nvsnap API generation markers, then commit all generated client,
informer, lister, DeepCopy, and OpenAPI schema changes.

Source: Coding guidelines

deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/templates/operator-networkpolicy.yaml-106-119 (1)

106-119: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject incomplete operator egress configuration.

When networkPolicy.operator.enabled is true with the documented defaults, apiServerCIDRs and extraEgress are empty. Line 106 then omits Kubernetes API egress. The policy selects the operator pod and denies all other egress.

The Deployment also configures NGC_API_URL at deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/templates/deployment.yaml lines 126-129, but this policy has no required rule for that endpoint. Require API-server and NGC egress configuration when the policy is enabled, or render safe defaults. Fail Helm rendering instead of deploying an operator that cannot reconcile.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/templates/operator-networkpolicy.yaml`
around lines 106 - 119, Require complete egress configuration in the operator
network policy when networkPolicy.operator.enabled is true. Validate that
apiServerCIDRs and the egress needed by NGC_API_URL are configured, or render
safe defaults covering both endpoints; fail Helm rendering with a clear error
when requirements are missing. Keep existing apiServerCIDRs and extraEgress
rendering unchanged for valid configurations.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/docs/users/nvsnap/DURABLE-WARM-SWEEP.md-1-3 (1)

1-3: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make the NvSnap documentation conform to the repository Markdown rule.

Both documents use Markdown bold emphasis, em dashes, and other non-ASCII characters. Replace them with concise ASCII-only plain text throughout both documents.

  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/docs/users/nvsnap/DURABLE-WARM-SWEEP.md#L1-L3: replace the prohibited title and body formatting throughout the document.
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/docs/users/nvsnap/NVSNAP-INTEGRATION-DESIGN.md#L1-L3: replace the prohibited title and body formatting throughout the document.

As per coding guidelines: "Documentation and committed text must avoid Markdown bold emphasis, emojis, em dashes, and non-ASCII characters; use concise, direct prose."

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/docs/users/nvsnap/DURABLE-WARM-SWEEP.md`
around lines 1 - 3, Update all prose in
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/docs/users/nvsnap/DURABLE-WARM-SWEEP.md (lines
1-3) to use concise ASCII-only plain text, removing bold Markdown, em dashes,
and other non-ASCII characters. Apply the same documentation cleanup throughout
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/docs/users/nvsnap/NVSNAP-INTEGRATION-DESIGN.md
(lines 1-3); preserve the technical meaning while avoiding prohibited formatting
and characters.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/templates/operator-networkpolicy.yaml-106-115 (1)

106-115: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require API server access when enabling the operator NetworkPolicy.

When networkPolicy.operator.enabled is true and apiServerCIDRs is empty, the template omits API server egress. The operator then loses Kubernetes API access unless extraEgress supplies an equivalent rule.

Fail rendering without API server access, and document the required CIDR or equivalent extraEgress rule.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/templates/operator-networkpolicy.yaml`
around lines 106 - 115, Update the operator NetworkPolicy template around the
apiServerCIDRs egress block to fail rendering when
networkPolicy.operator.enabled is true and no API server access is configured
through apiServerCIDRs or an equivalent extraEgress rule. Document in
values.yaml near the operator network policy settings that a required API server
CIDR or equivalent extraEgress rule must be supplied, covering both affected
files:
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/templates/operator-networkpolicy.yaml:106-115
and
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/values.yaml:409-425.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/reconcile/nvcaagent_reconcile.go-812-816 (1)

812-816: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Apply least-privilege permissions to NvSnapFunctionState.

Production code uses get, list, create, and update on nvsnapfunctionstates, and update on nvsnapfunctionstates/status. It does not use watch, patch, or delete. Split the rule and remove the unused verbs.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/reconcile/nvcaagent_reconcile.go`
around lines 812 - 816, Update the RBAC rules in the NvCA agent reconciliation
configuration to split nvsnapfunctionstates and nvsnapfunctionstates/status into
separate permissions. Grant get, list, create, and update for
nvsnapfunctionstates, and only update for nvsnapfunctionstates/status; do not
include watch, patch, or delete.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/k8scomputebackend.go-1044-1050 (1)

1044-1050: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Hoist the NvSnap decision out of the per-instance loop.

stampNvSnapAnnotations runs once per instance inside the loop that starts at Line 1033. All instances of one ICMSRequest share the same FunctionVersionID, so the CFS Get, the artifact existence check (2s timeout), and the content-addressed lookup (2s timeout) repeat identically for each replica. With instCount = N, pod creation can block for up to N * ~4s on the reconcile path.

Compute the annotation and label decision once before the loop, then apply the resulting annotations and labels to each pod copy.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/k8scomputebackend.go` around lines
1044 - 1050, Move the NvSnap decision out of the per-instance loop in the
ICMSRequest handling flow: compute the annotations and labels once before the
loop using the shared FunctionVersionID, including the existing CFS, artifact,
and content-addressed checks, then apply the resulting values to each pod copy.
Update stampNvSnapAnnotations or its callers as needed so it no longer repeats
these lookups per replica while preserving fail-open behavior.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap_hook.go-483-492 (1)

483-492: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the checkpoint ID for GetCheckpoint

GetCheckpoint resolves /api/v1/checkpoints/{id}, but nvsnapArtifactExists passes a content hash. A hash that is not also a checkpoint ID returns 404, so the Warm path resets valid state to Cold and triggers repeated captures.

Pass the checkpoint ID, or add a catalog lookup that resolves an artifact by hash before checking existence.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap_hook.go` around lines 483 -
492, The nvsnapArtifactExists function currently passes a content hash directly
to GetCheckpoint, which requires a checkpoint ID. Update this flow to resolve
the hash to its checkpoint ID through the appropriate catalog lookup before
calling GetCheckpoint, or change the function contract and callers to provide
the checkpoint ID, while preserving the existing not-found and error handling.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/metrics.go-30-39 (1)

30-39: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pre-initialize the reason label series on both CounterVecs.

Both vectors have a documented, fixed reason value set, but no series exists until the first increment. The alert rules named in the comments (rate(...[5m]) > 0) then evaluate against a missing series instead of zero, and a dashboard cannot tell "no failures" from "code path never reached".

Proposed pre-initialization
+func init() {
+	captureProtocolErrors.WithLabelValues("empty_hash")
+	for _, reason := range []string{
+		"create_failed",
+		"poll_failed",
+		"completed_failed",
+		"promote_poll_failed",
+		"promote_failed",
+	} {
+		checkpointAttemptFailures.WithLabelValues(reason)
+	}
+}

As per coding guidelines: "Request-handling services must expose RED metrics with Prometheus names, bounded label cardinality, pre-initialized counters, and appropriate histogram buckets."

Also applies to: 69-79

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/metrics.go` around
lines 30 - 39, Pre-initialize every documented reason label series for both
CounterVecs in metrics.go, including the fixed values such as empty_hash, by
invoking each vector’s WithLabelValues during initialization. Keep the existing
reason label names and metric definitions unchanged, and ensure all documented
values are registered before any increments occur.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/recover.go-113-161 (1)

113-161: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Extract the shared workload-identity helpers.

findInferenceContainer and extractModelID are byte-for-byte duplicates of inferenceContainer and extractModelID in src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap_hook.go. The comments explain the import cycle, which is a real constraint, but the consequence is that the admission hook and the reconciler can drift apart on what counts as the same workload. A drift makes Hook A restore from a hash the reconciler would never have selected.

Move both helpers into a small leaf package, for example pkg/nvca/nvsnap/workload, that both pkg/nvca and pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler import. That breaks the cycle without the copy.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/recover.go` around
lines 113 - 161, Extract findInferenceContainer and extractModelID into a shared
leaf package such as nvsnap/workload, preserving their current behavior and
exported access for both callers. Update nvsnap_hook.go and the reconciler to
import and use the shared helpers, then remove the duplicated local
implementations and cycle-avoidance comments.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/controller/controller.go-287-298 (1)

287-298: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

The per-reconcile context adds no bound; give it a deadline or remove it.

context.WithCancel(ctx) creates a child context that is canceled only after Reconcile has already returned, so it constrains nothing. A single reconcile can therefore block a worker for the full WarmupBuffer + CheckpointTimeout + PromotePollTimeout budget, and with Workers defaulting to 2 two stuck reconciles stall the whole queue. cancel is also not deferred, so a panic in Reconcile leaks the context.

Derive the deadline from the reconciler's own budget and defer the cancel.

Proposed fix
-	rctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
-	if err := c.Reconciler.Reconcile(rctx, pod); err != nil {
-		cancel()
-		c.Log.WithError(err).WithFields(logrus.Fields{
-			"pod":         ns + "/" + name,
-			"retry_count": c.queue.NumRequeues(key),
-		}).Warn("nvsnap controller: reconcile failed; will retry")
-		c.queue.AddRateLimited(key)
-		return false
-	}
-	cancel()
-	c.queue.Forget(key)
-	return false
+	rctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, c.reconcileBudget())
+	defer cancel()
+	if err := c.Reconciler.Reconcile(rctx, pod); err != nil {
+		c.Log.WithError(err).WithFields(logrus.Fields{
+			"pod":         ns + "/" + name,
+			"retry_count": c.queue.NumRequeues(key),
+		}).Warn("nvsnap controller: reconcile failed; will retry")
+		c.queue.AddRateLimited(key)
+		return false
+	}
+	c.queue.Forget(key)
+	return false

As per coding guidelines: "Use context-aware cancellation and timeouts, especially in controllers, reconcilers, queue handlers, and external-service operations."

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/controller/controller.go`
around lines 287 - 298, Update the per-reconcile context in the controller
worker around Reconciler.Reconcile to use a deadline derived from the
reconciler’s WarmupBuffer, CheckpointTimeout, and PromotePollTimeout budget, and
defer cancel immediately after creating it. Preserve the existing retry,
logging, and queue-forget behavior while ensuring Reconcile cannot exceed that
deadline.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/recover.go-89-110 (1)

89-110: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the per-match promote-state polling.

The loop issues one GetPVCPromoteState call per match, sequentially, on the caller's context. The default client timeout is 30s per call, and the caller passes an unbounded context in both paths. A workload with many catalog rows can therefore block a reconcile worker or the sweep goroutine for minutes before the function returns "".

Apply a short per-call timeout and stop after a small number of candidates, matching the 2s budget the admission hook already uses in nvsnap_hook.go lines 320-321.

Proposed bound
+	const maxCandidates = 5
 	for _, m := range resp.Matches {
 		if m.Hash == "" {
 			continue
 		}
-		ps, err := r.NvSnapClient.GetPVCPromoteState(ctx, m.Hash)
+		if checked >= maxCandidates {
+			log.WithField("checked", checked).
+				Debug("recovery: candidate budget exhausted; proceeding with normal capture flow")
+			break
+		}
+		checked++
+		psCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 5*time.Second)
+		ps, err := r.NvSnapClient.GetPVCPromoteState(psCtx, m.Hash)
+		cancel()
 		if err != nil {

Also set Limit on the LookupRequest at line 73 so the server caps the row count.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/recover.go` around
lines 89 - 110, Bound recovery candidate processing to prevent sequential
promote-state checks from running unbounded. In the lookup flow producing
resp.Matches, set LookupRequest.Limit to the same small candidate limit used by
the admission hook, and wrap each GetPVCPromoteState call in a 2-second per-call
timeout while preserving the existing result handling. Stop processing once the
candidate limit is reached and return the existing empty result when no usable
match is found.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/client.go-105-115 (1)

105-115: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Instrument the default nvsnap HTTP transport.

Use the vendored go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp transport in NewClient so every do request propagates W3C trace context and records transport and HTTP error status attributes. Add the corresponding dependency to pkg/nvca/nvsnap/BUILD.bazel, and add tests for context propagation and failed responses.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/client.go` around lines 105 -
115, The default HTTP client created by NewClient must use the vendored otelhttp
transport so all do requests propagate W3C trace context and record
transport/HTTP error status attributes. Wrap the default transport with otelhttp
in NewClient, add the required dependency in the package BUILD target, and add
coverage for trace-context propagation and failed responses.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go-216-231 (1)

216-231: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

The reconcile span never records failures.

The span starts at Line 223 and ends at Line 231. No path calls span.RecordError or span.SetStatus. Every failure exits through recordFailure, which returns nil, so the trace shows an unset span status on a failed capture. Tracing cannot distinguish a successful reconcile from a swallowed create_failed, poll_failed, promote_failed, or empty_hash outcome. That removes the only signal a trace consumer has, because the reconciler deliberately suppresses the error return.

Add the failure attributes at each terminal outcome. Also consider adding functionVersionID to the span attributes; the logger already carries it from Line 247.

♻️ Proposed approach: mark the span from `recordFailure`'s call sites
 	tracer := nvcaotel.NewTracer(nvcaotel.WithName("nvca.nvsnap.reconciler"))
 	ctx, span := tracer.Start(ctx, "nvsnap.hook_b.reconcile",
 		oteltrace.WithSpanKind(oteltrace.SpanKindInternal),
 		oteltrace.WithAttributes(
 			otelattr.String("k8s.pod.name", pod.Name),
 			otelattr.String("k8s.pod.namespace", pod.Namespace),
 			otelattr.String("k8s.pod.uid", string(pod.UID)),
 		),
 	)
 	defer span.End()

Then mark the span wherever a capture attempt ends badly, for example:

 	if final.Hash == "" {
 		captureProtocolErrors.WithLabelValues("empty_hash").Inc()
+		span.SetAttributes(otelattr.String("nvsnap.failure_reason", "empty_hash"))
+		span.SetStatus(otelcodes.Error, "nvsnap-server returned Completed with an empty hash")

Threading the span through recordFailure (or returning the reason to the caller) covers the four recordFailure sites in one place.

As per coding guidelines: "Add OpenTelemetry spans for inbound requests, outbound network calls, queue processing, and database operations; propagate W3C trace context and mark failures with error attributes." As per path instructions for src/**/*.go, request-handling changes must add logs, tracing, and RED metrics per AGENTS.md, which states: "maintain OpenTelemetry spans for network calls and reconciliation with stable names and error attributes".

Also applies to: 419-421, 428-434, 490-499

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go`
around lines 216 - 231, Update the reconcile span created in the nvsnap Hook B
flow to include functionVersionID and mark every terminal failure outcome
(create_failed, poll_failed, promote_failed, and empty_hash) with span error
attributes and an error status before returning through recordFailure. Cover all
recordFailure call sites consistently, without changing the existing
swallowed-error behavior.

Sources: Coding guidelines, Path instructions

src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/recover_test.go-102-130 (1)

102-130: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Unsynchronized flags shared between the httptest handler goroutine and the test goroutine. Five tests declare a plain bool, write it inside an httptest.Server handler, and read it from the test goroutine after Reconcile or SweepOnce returns. The httptest server runs each handler in its own goroutine, so every one of these is a data race under go test -race. The stub in reconciler_test.go already uses atomic.AddInt32 for the same producer-consumer shape; apply the same discipline here. Replace each flag with sync/atomic.Bool, write with Store(true), and read with Load().

  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/recover_test.go#L102-L130: change capturePosted to atomic.Bool. This test asserts the write executes, so the race is unconditional here.
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/recover_test.go#L58-L84: change capturePosted to atomic.Bool and add the sync/atomic import once for both tests.
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/captureonce_test.go#L183-L212: change capturePosted to atomic.Bool and add the sync/atomic import.
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep_test.go#L115-L129: change lookupCalled to atomic.Bool and add the sync/atomic import.
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep_test.go#L140-L152: change lookupCalled to atomic.Bool.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/recover_test.go`
around lines 102 - 130, Replace the unsynchronized handler flags with
atomic.Bool and use Store(true) in handlers plus Load() in assertions: update
capturePosted in recover_test.go at lines 102-130 and 58-84, capturePosted in
captureonce_test.go at lines 183-212, and lookupCalled in sweep_test.go at lines
115-129 and 140-152. Add sync/atomic imports once per affected file, preserving
each test’s existing assertions.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep.go-86-94 (1)

86-94: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Both recovery paths hardcode CapturedHere: true, including when the match has no L2 row. findUsableCapture in recover.go Lines 96-99 returns a hash when GetPVCPromoteState answers 404, described there as "usable via L1/peer cascade", and Line 103 accepts an empty state for the same reason. In those cases this cluster does not hold the capture locally. Both recovery writers still set CapturedHere: true. sweep_test.go Line 107 encodes the local reading of the field as "this cluster holds the L2 rox", which contradicts the peer-cascade case. Derive the value from the observed promote state rather than hardcoding it, and confirm what consumes CapturedHere before choosing the semantics.

  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep.go#L86-L94: set CapturedHere from the promote state that findUsableCapture observed, instead of the literal true.
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go#L325-L333: apply the same change in the gate 0b recovery short-circuit, which writes the identical statusUpdate.

Returning the observed state alongside the hash from findUsableCapture fixes both sites in one change.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep.go` around
lines 86 - 94, Update findUsableCapture to return the observed promote state
alongside the capture hash, preserving false for 404 or empty states that
indicate peer-cascade availability; use that state for CapturedHere in both
recovery statusUpdate writers in
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep.go (lines
86-94) and
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go (lines
325-333), replacing the hardcoded true and ensuring all callers handle the
expanded return value.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go-703-724 (1)

703-724: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

removeCheckpointOnWarm both logs and returns the same error, and contradicts its own doc.

Line 720 logs the patch failure. Line 721 returns the same error. The coding guidelines prohibit that combination for Go files.

The behavior also contradicts the doc comment at Lines 705-706, which states the failure "is logged but not fatal". Reconcile returns this value from Lines 255, 308, 336, and 546, so the controller receives an error and requeues. That requeue is the pattern recordFailure exists to avoid, as described at Lines 647-657.

Pick one contract. If the failure is not fatal, log it and return nil. If it must propagate, wrap it and delete the log line.

🐛 Proposed fix: match the documented non-fatal contract
 	if err != nil {
 		if apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
 			// Pod is gone — nothing to do.
 			return nil
 		}
-		log.WithError(err).Warn("failed to remove nvsnap.io/checkpoint-on-warm annotation")
-		return err
+		// Non-fatal: a future reconcile observes the warm cache state
+		// and skips via the already-Warm gate instead. Returning the
+		// error here would requeue and re-trigger a heavy capture path.
+		log.WithError(err).Warn("failed to remove nvsnap.io/checkpoint-on-warm annotation")
+		return nil
 	}
 	return nil

As per coding guidelines for **/*.{go,rs}: "When logging errors, preserve the originating error with %w or an equivalent wrapping mechanism and do not both log and return the same error."

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go`
around lines 703 - 724, Update Reconciler.removeCheckpointOnWarm to match its
documented non-fatal contract: after logging a non-NotFound patch failure,
return nil instead of propagating the same error, while preserving the existing
NotFound handling and successful path.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep.go-57-61 (1)

57-61: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Page the list and raise the failure log level.

Two problems on this call:

  1. metav1.ListOptions{} sets no Limit. The sweep fetches every NvSnapFunctionState in the cluster into memory on every tick. One object exists per function version, so a large fleet makes each tick allocate the whole set. Set a Limit and follow Continue, or read from an informer cache.
  2. Line 59 logs a list failure at Debug. This is the only recovery mechanism for a CFS that no live pod will ever re-evaluate, as the header comment at Lines 20-32 explains. A persistent list failure, for example a missing RBAC list verb, disables durable-warm silently at the default log level. Log at Warn and count it.
♻️ Proposed fix: paged list plus an observable failure
-	list, err := r.DynClient.Resource(CFSResource).List(ctx, metav1.ListOptions{})
-	if err != nil {
-		log.WithError(err).Debug("sweep: list NvSnapFunctionState failed; will retry next tick")
-		return
-	}
-
-	for i := range list.Items {
-		cfs := &list.Items[i]
-		fvID := cfs.GetName()
-
+	const sweepPageSize = 200
+	opts := metav1.ListOptions{Limit: sweepPageSize}
+	for {
+		list, err := r.DynClient.Resource(CFSResource).List(ctx, opts)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.WithError(err).Warn("sweep: list NvSnapFunctionState failed; durable-warm recovery is stalled until this succeeds")
+			return
+		}
+		for i := range list.Items {
+			r.sweepOneCFS(ctx, &list.Items[i], log)
+		}
+		if list.GetContinue() == "" {
+			return
+		}
+		opts.Continue = list.GetContinue()
+	}
+}

Move the per-item body into a sweepOneCFS method. That also keeps the nesting flat.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep.go` around
lines 57 - 61, Update the sweep logic around the dynamic-client list call to
page NvSnapFunctionState results with a nonzero metav1.ListOptions.Limit,
repeatedly processing each page and following the returned Continue token until
exhausted. Extract each item’s existing processing into a sweepOneCFS method,
preserve current behavior across all pages, and change list-failure logging from
Debug to Warn while incrementing the existing failure metric or counter.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler_test.go-392-413 (1)

392-413: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the exact CFS state so this test covers the claim it documents.

The comment at Lines 404-407 states that the CFS "stays in whatever state it was". The assertions do not check that. Line 398 checks only != Warm, and Line 408 checks only != Failed.

The state after this Reconcile is Capturing, not the pre-existing state. Line 390 of reconciler.go claims the capture and stamps Capturing, captureOwner, and captureLeaseExpiry. The empty-hash branch returns before any writeStatus, so nothing clears them. The two negative assertions pass over that, so the test currently hides the leaked claim I flagged on reconciler.go Lines 452-463.

Assert the exact state and the empty claim fields. The test then fails until the production fix lands, which is the behavior you want here.

💚 Proposed stronger assertions
 	s := readStatus(got)
-	if s.LocalCacheState == nvsnapv1alpha1.LocalCacheStateWarm {
-		t.Errorf("LocalCacheState = Warm despite empty hash; defense in depth failed")
-	}
+	// The pre-existing state was Cold (getOrCreateCFS seeds it). The
+	// empty-hash path must leave that state and must release the
+	// capture-once claim taken before the POST.
+	if s.LocalCacheState != nvsnapv1alpha1.LocalCacheStateCold {
+		t.Errorf("LocalCacheState = %q, want Cold (empty-hash must not leave the CFS Capturing or Warm)", s.LocalCacheState)
+	}
+	if s.CaptureOwner != "" || s.CaptureLeaseExpiry != nil {
+		t.Errorf("capture claim leaked on the empty-hash path: owner=%q lease=%v — peer pods are blocked until the lease expires",
+			s.CaptureOwner, s.CaptureLeaseExpiry)
+	}
 	if s.CheckpointHash != "" {
 		t.Errorf("CheckpointHash = %q; should remain empty", s.CheckpointHash)
 	}
-	if s.LocalCacheState == nvsnapv1alpha1.LocalCacheStateFailed {
-		t.Errorf("LocalCacheState = Failed; should be untouched when swallowing empty-hash")
-	}
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler_test.go`
around lines 392 - 413, Strengthen the assertions in the empty-hash test around
readStatus so it verifies the CFS remains in its pre-existing exact state,
Capturing, rather than merely rejecting Warm and Failed. Also assert that the
leaked claim fields captureOwner and captureLeaseExpiry are empty or unset,
while CheckpointHash and LastError remain empty.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go-664-701 (1)

664-701: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

A failed status write silently disables the backoff gate.

Lines 681-683 log the writeStatus failure and continue. recordFailure then returns nil, so nothing escalates.

The persisted AttemptCount and LastAttemptAt are the only inputs to shouldSuppressAttempt (backoff.go Lines 89-99). If writeStatus fails persistently, for example because the operator lacks RBAC on the nvsnapfunctionstates/status subresource, then AttemptCount stays 0 and LastAttemptAt stays nil. shouldSuppressAttempt returns false on every call, and every pod-ready event fires another full capture. That is the unbounded capture loop described at Lines 14-25 of backoff.go, with the guard silently absent.

The failure is invisible in metrics today. Add a counter so the condition is alertable.

🛡️ Proposed fix: make the lost guard observable
 	if err := writeStatus(ctx, r.DynClient, fvID, upd); err != nil {
-		log.WithError(err).Error("failed to write failure status; original error preserved in log")
+		// The backoff gate reads AttemptCount/LastAttemptAt from CFS.
+		// A lost write means the gate cannot engage for this
+		// function-version, so the next pod-ready event re-attempts a
+		// full capture. Count it so the condition is alertable.
+		captureProtocolErrors.WithLabelValues("status_write_failed").Inc()
+		log.WithError(err).WithField("function_version", fvID).
+			Error("failed to persist failure status; the per-function backoff gate cannot engage for this function-version")
 	}

Keep the captureProtocolErrors label set bounded, as the comment at Lines 662-663 requires.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go`
around lines 664 - 701, Define and increment a dedicated Prometheus counter when
writeStatus fails inside Reconciler.recordFailure, using a bounded label set
consistent with captureProtocolErrors and labeling the status-write failure
condition. Keep the existing error log and nil return behavior unchanged, so
failed status persistence becomes observable without altering retry handling.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go-181-192 (1)

181-192: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the timeout literals so the pioneer lease cannot drift.

DefaultColdStartPioneerLeaseTTL hardcodes 30*time.Minute, 15*time.Minute, and 5*time.Minute. applyDefaults hardcodes the same values independently at Lines 161, 167, and 174. The doc comment at Lines 186-189 states that this function "exposes the same default sum applyDefaults derives", but nothing enforces that.

If someone raises the CheckpointTimeout default at Line 161 alone, the pioneer lease stops covering the cold-start budget. A deferred replica then steals the pioneer slot while the pioneer is still capturing, which is the exact failure the lease prevents.

♻️ Proposed refactor
 const (
 	defaultWarmupBuffer = 10 * time.Second
+	// defaultCheckpointTimeout, defaultPromotePollTimeout and
+	// defaultLeaseMargin are shared by applyDefaults and
+	// DefaultColdStartPioneerLeaseTTL so the two cannot drift.
+	defaultCheckpointTimeout  = 30 * time.Minute
+	defaultPromotePollTimeout = 15 * time.Minute
+	defaultLeaseMargin        = 5 * time.Minute
 )
 	if r.CheckpointTimeout == 0 {
-		r.CheckpointTimeout = 30 * time.Minute
+		r.CheckpointTimeout = defaultCheckpointTimeout
 	}
 	if r.PromotePollInterval == 0 {
 		r.PromotePollInterval = 5 * time.Second
 	}
 	if r.PromotePollTimeout == 0 {
-		r.PromotePollTimeout = 15 * time.Minute
+		r.PromotePollTimeout = defaultPromotePollTimeout
 	}
-		r.CaptureLeaseTTL = r.WarmupBuffer + r.CheckpointTimeout + r.PromotePollTimeout + 5*time.Minute
+		r.CaptureLeaseTTL = r.WarmupBuffer + r.CheckpointTimeout + r.PromotePollTimeout + defaultLeaseMargin
 func DefaultColdStartPioneerLeaseTTL() time.Duration {
-	return defaultWarmupBuffer + 30*time.Minute + 15*time.Minute + 5*time.Minute
+	return defaultWarmupBuffer + defaultCheckpointTimeout + defaultPromotePollTimeout + defaultLeaseMargin
 }
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/reconciler.go`
around lines 181 - 192, Extract the shared 30-minute checkpoint, 15-minute L2
promote, and 5-minute margin defaults into package-level constants or equivalent
symbols, then reuse them in both applyDefaults and
DefaultColdStartPioneerLeaseTTL. Ensure the lease calculation remains derived
from the same values configured by applyDefaults so future changes cannot drift.
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep.go-80-83 (1)

80-83: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bound each per-CFS lookup with its own timeout.

findUsableCapture issues one LookupCheckpoints call plus one GetPVCPromoteState call per match, serially, against nvsnap-server. See recover.go Lines 69-111. The sweep passes its own ctx straight through, with no per-item deadline.

If nvsnap-server stops responding, the first CFS consumes the whole sweep. Every later CFS in the list is skipped for that tick, and the goroutine stays blocked. The reconcile paths bound their equivalent calls with context.WithTimeout at reconciler.go Lines 425 and 488. The sweep should do the same.

🛡️ Proposed fix
-		hash := r.findUsableCapture(ctx, imageRef, modelID, log)
+		// Bound each per-CFS lookup so one unresponsive nvsnap-server
+		// cannot consume the whole sweep tick.
+		lookupCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, sweepLookupTimeout)
+		hash := r.findUsableCapture(lookupCtx, imageRef, modelID, log)
+		cancel()
 		if hash == "" {
 			continue // no usable capture yet — leave for a future tick
 		}

Declare the budget next to the other knobs:

+// sweepLookupTimeout bounds the nvsnap-server lookup for one CFS
+// during a sweep tick.
+const sweepLookupTimeout = 30 * time.Second

As per coding guidelines for src/compute-plane-services/nvca/**/*.go: "Use context-aware cancellation and timeouts, especially in controllers, reconcilers, queue handlers, and external-service operations."

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/sweep.go` around
lines 80 - 83, In the sweep loop around findUsableCapture, create a per-CFS
context with the configured lookup timeout before each call, pass it instead of
the parent ctx, and cancel it immediately after the lookup. Add the timeout as a
nearby controller knob consistent with the existing reconciler timeout settings,
ensuring one unresponsive lookup cannot consume the entire sweep.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/state.go-424-441 (1)

424-441: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bootstrap the CFS before claiming the pioneer slot.

When the CFS is absent, the gate calls TryClaimColdStartPioneer, receives NotFound, and proceeds fail-open. The first cold-start herd therefore bypasses pioneer election and can create multiple MiniServices. Call the package-local createInitialCFS before the claim. Also align the empty-owner predicate with tryClaimCapture.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap/reconciler/state.go` around
lines 424 - 441, Update TryClaimColdStartPioneer to create the initial CFS via
the package-local createInitialCFS when the resource lookup returns NotFound,
then continue the claim flow against the bootstrapped resource instead of
fail-opening. Align the lease-owner eligibility check with tryClaimCapture,
including the same empty-owner predicate semantics, while preserving existing
warm/failed and competing-live-lease behavior.

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Comment thread src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap_coldstart_gate.go
…ed capture claim

Three critical review findings on #208. Each fix ships with a test that fails
without it.

1. Nil pointer dereference in the cold-start gate.

The gate Gets the CFS, tolerating NotFound (cfsObj stays nil), then tries to
claim the pioneer slot. TryClaimColdStartPioneer returns (false, nil) when a
live foreign pioneer holds the claim -- which happens when the winner created
AND claimed the CFS between our Get and our claim. The lost-election branch
then read cfsObj.Object for the pioneer name and panicked, inside the
MiniService creation path.

Re-reads the CFS instead of guarding the nil. That fixes the panic and a
correctness bug at the same time: even when cfsObj was non-nil it predated the
claim, so the pioneer it reported was stale, and naming the winner is the
entire point of the field. Best-effort -- pioneer only feeds a log line and the
requeue message, so a failed re-read leaves it empty rather than failing the
gate.

2. applyDefaults raced on shared state.

The type documents itself as "safe for many concurrent Reconcile calls", but
applyDefaults writes nine receiver fields, and a controller shares ONE
Reconciler across its workqueue workers plus SweepOnce on its own timer
goroutine. Identical values, but still a data race under the Go memory model.

Wrapped in sync.Once, which also gives the happens-before edge readers need
since every caller goes through Do. The file defines no New despite the doc
saying "Construct via New", so a constructor would have meant changing every
caller; Once is the contained fix. Documented the consequence: defaults freeze
at first use, so dependent fields (CaptureLeaseTTL derives from three others)
must be set before the first Reconcile.

The new test reports 8 DATA RACEs under -race without the Once, none with it.

3. The empty-hash path leaked the Capturing claim.

Reconcile claims the capture -- LocalCacheState=Capturing, captureOwner,
captureLeaseExpiry on a ~50 min lease -- and writeStatus is the only code that
clears those. The empty-hash branch returned nil without it, so the CFS sat
Capturing under a pod that had stopped capturing and every peer pod of the
function version was gated at the claim until the lease expired.

Added releaseCaptureClaim, which restores the observed prior status and lets
writeStatus drop the claim fields. Deliberately not recordFailure: that sets
LastError and counts an attempt, and this branch's documented contract is
"treat it as if the capture never happened" -- an existing assertion pins that
LastError stays empty.

The test could not detect the leak: it asserted only != Warm and != Failed, and
a leaked Capturing satisfies both. Now asserts the exact state (Cold) plus
CaptureOwner empty and CaptureLeaseExpiry nil. Without the fix it reports
Capturing / ns1-p1 / a live lease.

go test ./pkg/nvca/... -race: all green, zero races.

Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap_coldstart_gate_test.go`:
- Around line 64-90: The test around shouldDeferColdStart currently verifies
only that a second Get occurs; also assert that the returned deferral error from
shouldDeferColdStart contains the refreshed pioneer identity
“other-ns/other-pod” (or validate that value through the typed error’s pioneer
field), confirming the post-election read reaches deferColdStartReplica. Keep
the existing request-count assertion.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap_coldstart_gate.go`:
- Around line 158-161: Update the best-effort re-read in the cold-start gate
around nvsnapFunctionStateGVR.Get to handle ferr explicitly: retain the
successful fresh-object extraction, but when the Kubernetes read fails, emit a
structured log containing the originating error and functionVersionID, then
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Comment thread src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/nvsnap_coldstart_gate.go
Two review follow-ups on the pioneer re-read, both scoped to the
lost-election branch of shouldDeferColdStart.

The re-read is best-effort: pioneer only feeds a log field and the
requeue message, so a failed Get leaves it empty rather than failing
the gate. But the condition consumed ferr without reporting it, so an
API failure was indistinguishable from "no pioneer recorded". Log it
with functionVersionID and the originating error. Debug rather than
Info because the deferral behavior is unaffected -- only the name in
the message is lost -- whereas the fail-open logs above it do change
what the gate decides.

The race test asserted only that a second Get happened, which does not
prove the value it read reached deferColdStartReplica. Assert the
deferral error names the pioneer, so a regression to the stale (nil
cfsObj -> empty) read is caught instead of passing on the call count.
Verified: neutering the re-read fails the new assertion with
"pioneer=" empty, and passes with it restored.

go test -race ./pkg/nvca/... green. Note the package needs
-ldflags="-X github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-dra-driver-gpu/internal/info.version=v25.8.0"
or a vendored dependency panics at init.

Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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